thing is my friend, my brain is a bit scrambled by the mess we're all in. I know I could go round America and find the nicest people going as long as I don't talk politics. I know how hospitable Americans are, but what has driven me round the bend is the lack of conviction here about the scape-goating of Bradley Manning, even this week's resolution being veto'd by Obama where Israel is building illegally, I have nothing against Israel, I just want to know what it stands for when it bombs kids with phosphorous, is all. You all take Obam lying down.

Was chatting to some Buddhist friends the other night (they knew chogyam Trungpa when he started Samye Ling), one of them is close to a Lama very close to the Karmapa, and though they won't really come out and say it, she thinks the feeling is that this is the period where civilisation becomes dark and dangerous, enlightenment will be come impossible in one lifetime, and the other things that Guru Rinpoche spoke of

you heard it here first Messy.

Keep your head down fer chrissakes, it's gonna get ugly...starting in DC